Not exact matches
Yet energy
justice — defined here as meeting one's needs for the services that energy provides
at reasonable cost, with fair and equitable access, and without disproportionate economic and environmental burdens — can mitigate the problems and pressures in other areas, especially when efficiency and solar energy are developed so as to create local jobs.
All that has been written and said in relation to the «access to
justice» problem — that is, the fact that the majority of the population can not obtain legal services
at reasonable cost — fails to contain the necessary solution.
They pay most of the taxes that support the
justice system, but they can't make effective use of any of it because of the unavailability of legal services
at reasonable cost.
(4) the taxpayers who finance the
justice system whereat the legal profession, including benchers, earn an income that is considerably better than the average income of taxpayers, but the majority of those taxpayers can not have a lawyer who can provide legal advice services
at reasonable cost.
And it follows that prosecuting non-lawyers because they give legal advice to people who can not obtain lawyers
at reasonable cost, and can not afford present unreasonable
costs, is to bar the people so advised and aided by those non-lawyers from their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, in particular, s. 7 (fundamental
justice), s. 11 (d)(fair trial), and s. 15 (equality rights).
In the end, Stephen draws on his decades of experience to navigate the choppy waters of the criminal
justice system, always mindful of achieving for his clients the best result
at a
reasonable cost.
Two months later,
Justice Strekaf imposed the penalty for the contempt, ordering the Tsuu T'ina Nation to pay «
reasonable costs and expenses» of the three residents, as well as their legal
costs (although only
at the legal aid rate).
It is in everyone's benefit to ensure that we maintain access to
justice, protect vulnerable claimants, maintain high standards within the profession and keep
costs at a
reasonable, affordable level.
(7) «Access to
Justice — The Unavailability of Legal Services
at Reasonable Cost and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms» (SSRN, August 29, 2013).
See my paper, «Access to
Justice — The Unavailability of Legal Services
at Reasonable Cost and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms» (a pdf file of 66 pages, on the SSRN (the Social Science Research Network)-RRB-.